Victims of the Infected Blood Scandal can now apply for up to £100,000 in compensation.
24/10/2024
Victims of the infected blood scandal are set to receive their first payments by the end of the year.
16/08/2024
Payments to victims of the infected blood scandal are expected to begin within weeks, the paymaster general has confirmed.
21/05/2024
Hi, I am Stuart Mclean 54-years-old, when I was an 8-year-old child I was taken to the hospital for a swollen knee, I had NO bleeding disorders like Haemophilia or Von Willebands disease.
21/05/2024
Lord Ken Clarke has 'questions to answer' over the infected blood scandal, a senior minister has told LBC.
21/05/2024
A Labour MP who fought for compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal has told LBC one of the issues was the 'department of health was institutionally defending itself'.
20/05/2024
Rishi Sunak has apologised for the infected blood scandal, as he said it's a 'day of shame for the British state' after the inquiry’s report found there was a ‘chilling’ cover-up.
20/05/2024
More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after blood collected from prisons was administered to patients in the 1970s and 1980s.
20/05/2024
Families of the victims of the contaminated blood scandal are calling for criminal prosecutions after the inquiry’s final report concluded patients were exposed to “unacceptable risks”.
20/05/2024
Children were used as "objects for research" while the risks of contracting hepatitis and HIV were ignored at a specialist school where boys were treated for haemophilia, the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry has found.
20/05/2024
The contaminated blood scandal has been called the worst treatment disaster in NHS history. Tens of thousands of people in the UK were infected with HIV and/or hepatitis through contaminated blood and blood products in the 1970s and early 1990s.
20/05/2024
The public inquiry into the infected blood scandal has found evidence of a cover-up by the NHS and successive governments which sought to hide the truth of the disaster.
20/05/2024
The Government will have to address any evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the report into the infected blood scandal, Paymaster General John Glen has said.
20/05/2024
The infected blood scandal - dubbed the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS - has been the subject of the biggest ever public inquiry in the UK. But what is it?
20/05/2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to offer the first government apology for the infected blood scandal as the public inquiry into the disaster publishes its final report.
19/05/2024
